Subject: Re: Learning curve for common lisp
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/01/23
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3126050921387019@naggum.no>
* kturvey@pug1.sprocketshop.com (Kenneth P. Turvey)
| The extensions to Common Lisp that make up CLOS are probably a bit
| easier to understand (and more powerful) than the extensions to C that
| lead to C++ (a bit of a simplification).
another item on this issue is that Common Lisp benefited from CLOS in
very serious ways, so now it's hardly possible to talk about Common Lisp
without CLOS even when none of the CLOS features are _requested_ by the
programmer, but it's still possible to talk about C without the ++, and
as far as I know, none of the benefits of C++ are available unless you
request those features specifically.
I think this makes Common Lisp easier to understand and CLOS even less of
a burden for an experienced Common Lisp programmer to learn, but as is
usual, you need to discover the need before learning how to do it.
#:Erik
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